Mix eggs and cream cheese until smooth. Then mix in all the other ingredients. Pour into lined cheesecake pan.

Place some tin foil balls or I used mason jar lid rings on the bottom of the crockpot for something to set the cheese cake on.

Put 1/2 inch of water in crockpot.

Place cheesecake into crockpot, on top of whatever you put in there to keep the cheesecake out of the water.

Put paper towels or a dish cloth over the crockpot, then place lid on. The towel is to prevent water from dripping into the cheesecake. Be careful not to let the towel touch the sides of the crockpot, it may burn.

Cook for 2 hours on High, turn off and let sit in there for 1 hour, then remove and refrigerate overnight.

The Zero Carb diet is an all or nothing diet. There is no “almost ZC” or 90% ZC, or ZC 4 days a week. If you are cheating and eating plant foods and or zero carb artificial sweeteners, you are not Zero Carb, you are Low Carb. It takes several weeks/months of 100% Zero Carb to become completely fat adapted and realize the amazing benefits that a plant free, chemical free, diet can do for you.

The Zero Carb Carnivore diet is similar to AA, Alcoholic Anonymous. ZC is basically AA for carbohydrate addicts. ZC is a diet for carb addicts and Zero Carb Health is a recovery, support and educational group for people (addict or not) trying to give up carbohydrates and get healthy.

When I started this diet 10 years ago, my carbohydrate addiction ended when my blood sugar stabilized. Blood sugar swings from eating carbohydrates is what drove my addiction. So, once they were gone, this diet was very easy for me. I never wanted a carbohydrate after my blood sugar got under control.

I soon learned that this was not the case for many people. Eliminating carbohydrates did not cure their carb addiction, like it did mine. This is when we realized that some people have a real addiction to carbs, just like alcohol/drug/smokers are addicted. This is why we are so strict about keeping images of carbohydrate “trigger” foods and posts about cheating, out of the group. Just like an alcoholic doesn’t want to hear about other alcoholics giving into drinking or seeing pictures of their favorite drink all over the place. We try to keep ZCH a carb free, safe zone.

Carbohydrate or sugar addiction is no different than an alcohol or drug addiction. The addiction infects every cell of your body and your brain. It takes about 90 days for the brain to break free of the immediate effects of an addictive substance. So, if you can’t make it 90 days or so of ZC then you are not even close to overcoming your addiction and becoming fat adapted. It takes the body weeks and months or years to detox from the damaging effects of years and years of the over consumption of carbohydrates and sugar.

When you keep cheating and feeding that addiction your body remains in a state of turmoil. Your body will not adapt to clean fat burning if you continue to feed it carbs. You think that 1 piece of dark chocolate or avocado or whatever, once a week or once a month has no effect on you, yet here you are complaining and upset because you are not seeing the results you want. Guess what? That 1 bite of sugar is obviously a huge problem for you! The fact that you can’t stop yourself from cheating should be a clue that you have a problem. But, that is why we are here, to help you get over your addiction. We are not here to give you gold stars for being ZC for 100 days. We want to help people ditch their sugar habits, but we can’t help anybody unless they are honest.

Not all of us are addicts. Those, like myself, who pretty much had an easy time transitioning to meat only, are not addicts. Those of you who keep cheating with sugar are bonafide addicts. Every bite or sip of sweetness is completely derailing any progress and putting you and your body right back at day 1.

So, stop fooling yourselves. If you cannot control cravings and continue to cheat over and over, you are not ZC and this diet will not work the way it is supposed to. You are “trying” to be ZC. There is nothing wrong with that. Your cheating experience is valuable because it is the most common problem. The struggle is real. Your honesty can help open up the discussion on how to help others with the same problem.

This diet is not easy. Most people have a very hard time. Most people can’t do it for very long. Don’t beat yourself up, just do the best you can and be honest about it. We are here to help you. If this diet makes you miserable and you see no benefits then it’s simply not for you.

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High ketones are a sign of inefficient fat burning. If you have high ketone readings or if you can easily produce high ketone readings, you are not 100% fat adapted. Of course, if you are on a Zero Carb diet, you are in ketosis all the time, but our ketone levels become stable, just like our blood sugar levels.

The science on this is very new and very misunderstood. Dr Phinney has done the most research on it, but even he is misunderstanding. He thinks elevated ketones, in a target range, are a great thing and we should strive to be in “nutritional ketosis”. I wish he would try Zero Carb, so he can see what happens when people eat the human optimal diet, meat, with no restrictions or counting macros.

As a 10 year, Zero Carb, Carnivore, it is very difficult for me to get a ketone reading above 0.8. My readings are pretty rock solid at 0.3 in the morning and 0.8 in the evenings, before eating. (I only eat 2 times per day, 10 -12 hours between meals.)

I am still experimenting with this and have not had the time to totally punish my body to see how high of a reading I can get, but I did manage to get a ketone reading up to 1.5. 1.5, according to Dr. Phinney, is the minimum level to be in “nutritional ketosis”. Seriously?!

For me to get a ketone reading up to 1.5, I lowered my food intake for a few days prior to the day I skipped breakfast. The day I skipped breakfast I worked out doing various strenuous things (steep hike and several hours of stacking wood, until I could not pick up another piece of wood). I was physically exhausted, I then tested ketones expecting to see at least a 2, after not eating proper amounts of food for 2 days then fasting for 24 hours, and all that exercise and it was only 1.5! There is no way I could live like that every day.

Nobody knows what keeping ketones artificially high for extended periods of time is going to do to us. It is impossible to naturally maintain high ketone levels. You have to constantly manipulate your food intake to maintain high levels. Who wants to live like that?

It seems our bodies learn / adapt to only produce the amount of ketones that are needed. If you are constantly manipulating your fuel/metabolism your body is confused and isn’t functioning at it’s best.

I believe if I decided to start training for a marathon, my ketone level would go higher for a while until I adapt to this new activity level, then my ketone readings would drop back down to 0.8 as my body becomes more efficient at operating at this higher activity level. My body would be using more ketones (fuel) on a daily basis, due to increased activity, but not producing so much that they are being wasted, causing high ketone levels. Our bodies are very good at being efficient.

My theory is, that, this is why the KETO dieters often complain of no energy, especially the athletes. Your body wants to run on either carbs, or fat, not both. People who try to straddle both fuel sources never find optimal performance.

Just eat meat, freely, the way we were intended and stop worrying about maintaining a number on a meter!

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Ten years ago, when Zero Carb was just starting, Kimkins was the popular fad diet. Kimkins was a low carb, low fat diet. Most people who come to the Zero Carb diet, did so via a low carb and or a low fat diet, so many of our members were low carb, low fat or Kimkins refugees. Due to the fear of saturated fats, high cholesterol and heart disease, we had to stress eating fat. Eating animal fat is healthy, the human body loves animal fats. Animal fats give our bodies the fuel it needs to build a strong healthy body and brain. But people were conditioned to eating skinless chicken breasts, lean pork and fish, because those were the healthy white meats. We had to tell people to add fat in the form of butter, lard, tallow or bacon grease because if you do not eat enough fat, you will have no energy, and you will eventually give into carb cravings or quit the diet, altogether. Most of us added fat to our meals. It was like our bodies were fat starved. We craved it. We seeked out fat scraps in restaurants, butcher shops and grocery stores. We were fat crazed!

I believe we added fat for a good 2 years, then noticed we didn’t want so much fat anymore and began eating regular fatty meats like well marbled cuts of beef, chicken with the skin, 80/20 ground beef (instead of 73/27). Not one of us long time Zero carbers eats lean meats. We do on occasion, if we have to, but we don’t feel well on lean meats.

Fast forward to 2014. I’m not sure exactly when it started, but around 2013-2014 we started seeing KETO refugees. The KETO diet (Ketogenic) in my opinion is a hack of the Zero Carb diet for people who wanted their fat, sweets and veggies too.

A Zero Carb diet is the ultimate ketogenic diet. It is a carbohydrate free diet that forces your body to burn fat (ketones) instead of sugar (glucose). The Zero Carb Diet as we defined it, is a diet of animal products only. Zero Carb sweeteners are not part of The Zero Carb diet. We learned that even Zero Carb sweeteners raise blood sugar just like regular sugar. Zero Carb sweeteners also feed sugar/sweet cravings and lead to sugar or carbohydrate binging. Sugar addiction is a real thing. Then there are people who believe some vegetables, fruits, nuts and plant oils have magical nutrients and antioxidants that the human body NEEDS. And so the KETO diet was born.

The KETO diet thinks maintaining a high level of ketones is of some benefit to the human body. ( There are studies showing a ketogenic diet is helpful for epileptics and cancer patients, but I am not sure if it is due to the presence of ketones or due to the absence of carbohydrates.) This diet relies on manipulating Macros (carbohydrate, fat, protein) to maintain high ketone readings on a meter. The problem with this is on a very low or zero carb diet, our bodies become more efficient at using ketones and therefore it becomes more and more difficult to maintain high ketone readings. In order to keep ketone readings high, people need to limit protein, increase fat, lower carbs, fast and or workout more. At some point they burn out and get sick of all the tweaking and measuring.

In my opinion and experience, if your body is still producing high ketone numbers it is not running efficiently. It is not fully fat adapted and you will not see the benefits of strength, endurance and health that is achieved in a fully fat adapted body. The KETO diet puts the body in a position of hybrid fuel burning, straddling the line of either glycogen or fat burning, never giving the body a chance to fully engage in 100% clean fat burning.

Today, we no longer tell people to add fat, because they are coming from KETO where they are drinking fat in their coffee, consuming fat bombs and eating way too much fat in order to maintain high ketone numbers. The problem with too much fat, besides having to run to the bathroom all day long, is that nutrients are in the meat. If you are eating too much fat, you get full faster and don’t consume enough meat and nutrients. Too much fat is just as bad as eating lean meats.

This brings us to today. Keto and low carb are getting some good press. This is a good start for some real changes in nutrition guidelines. There are some very influential people putting out books and collecting data about how limiting carbohydrates can reverse diabetes, prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s, prevent heart disease, obesity, control cancer, etc. But, if they know carbohydrates are not essential and they know carbohydrates cause bad health, why are they still eating them?!

Do I have to force myself to eat the amounts on the sample menus? No? But then, I don’t understand why you give ‘general amounts’ at all…?
Much as the guiding precepts are actually very simple at heart, these are things which still confuse and/or concern people.

To try to address some of them, I’m re-posting a comment I made in a thread about the zero carb diet sample menus, where some of the responses were a little bemused at least, or even actually concerned, about how much food they felt was involved:

The sample menus, the recommended amounts and the general guidelines we tend to give on ZC, about food volume et al…as well as why we emphasis and encourage what seems to some people bafflingly ‘large’ amounts…and so strongly also encourage the freedom to eat freely and generously, to all, irrespective of their weight, as opposed to trying to ‘calculate’ anything at all in any way…and why we even give or try to define these recommendations at all…are covered in this post:

To begin with, the sample menus are not some ‘huge amount’ of food at all.

In every single sample day, there is at least one meal where no actual general size/amount is even specified…so, that leaves it open for people to allow their own level of hunger to guide them.

The amounts listed are suggestions, in any case. That’s the whole point. It is not some kind of ‘diet’ list to follow to the letter. That includes the amounts.

The purpose of the sample menus is to allow for people to learn to properly establish their own bodily hunger signals and allow them the freedom to do so. Meaning, to give them an indication of how much it is perfectly fine to eat, if their body wants/needs it.
Relearning proper hunger, meaning, learning to follow and understand it better as part of the process of attaining a better synchronicity between what their cells need and how they respond to fuel those needs, is very important for rebalancing hormonal pathways.
If you don’t go through this to re-balance the hormonal pathways involved, you will only keep the current imbalances pushed out of ideal alignment for even longer. Thus, this freedom to eat is very important. Especially in the early months when the body is relearning hunger/satiety on Zero Carb, it is vital that the mind only plays a secondary role, rather than be allowed to dictate volume and times eaten based on our previous notions of what ‘should’ be enough.

Vee’s Chicken Down Under

This takes time. And it takes allowing your body free reign to eat as much as it calls for, which is very necessary to breaking those old belief systems, patterns and fixations, based on our previous mentally-driven beliefs and misconceptions about what a ‘serve’ is, etc.

No one is saying you have to stuff yourself silly. We encourage people to follow actual hunger. But, for many people this FIRST means they have to let go of the old ideas, in order for their mind to even be open enough at all, to properly begin to HEAR what the real cellar hunger signals really are, on a Zero Carb diet.

Most people are still subconsciously restricting when they start ZC.

This is the only reason we give guidelines at all. To help encourage them to let go of those limitations they are unwittingly creating for themselves.

When you can eat with true freedom, the body will more quickly be able to become in better tune with the mind. This will help to get the hormonal pathways balanced and in proper homeostasis faster. This will then allow the mind to have a better grasp on properly interpreting the signals it is receiving from the cells, from the hypothalamus, and from all the other signaling pathways involved in hunger/satiety etc.

Then you will be in a better position to actually recognize whether you are eating for sheer entertainment, or due to boredom, or whatever, or eating based on hunger and fuel needs…which we previously so messed up on SAD and other diets, that the mind has lost its ability to know what is what at all, much of the time.

So, it also depends what stage you are at. If you have been Zero Carb for a good few months, you are probably getting better at ‘hearing’ the real cues. Meaning your mind is getting better at interpreting all the signals involved. And that means you’ll have a better idea if your eating behaviors are due to actual hunger, or if you are using food as some kind of other salve, like for dealing with emotions, or for dealing with boredom or anxiety or fear or the vagaries of life, etc.

In those cases, by all means there are things you can work on, regarding your emotional attachments etc…to help get you get better aligned and better able to achieve a state where you are only using food as fuel.

But most people need some good ‘freedom’ time first, before they start analyzing those things too much. Because they will end up under-eating if they don’t first learn to let go of that life-time of habits of restriction, confusion and fear-based mental ‘control’ over when and how much they allow themselves to eat.

The amount of food given as suggestions in those sample menus is perfectly fine, especially considering that they remain somewhat open in the amounts suggested when you look at them over the whole day, rather than just at each meal.

Some people may not eat as big a breakfast as others, but will eat a larger meal at dinner, for example. The menus allow for those differences in individual proclivities. Some people eat their biggest meal at night and feel best doing so. Others need a really big breakfast. Some don’t need or want lunch. It doesn’t matter. They are all guidelines, nothing more.

What matters is that you get a sense of the freedom to eat and learn to follow it. That is what will give you the surest and fastest route to getting to where you properly can identify what your body is telling you. And that will help your hormones attain their proper balance faster, too.

Rhonda’s Zero Carb Southern Fried Pork Chops

If you are not hungry, don’t eat. If you’re eating just because you don’t know what else to do with yourself, find something else to do for a while until you are actually hungry. But please understand that for most people, FORCING mental ideas about which is which, when they are still in their early months, will usually lead them to eat too little.

That is the only reason we caution against mentally ‘deciding’ what a proper amount ‘should’ look like. You won’t know what that is, until you’ve lived real ZC for a good while and until you’ve become better able then, to hear all the body’s various signals for fuel properly…as opposed to your mental ones, which will still tend to be louder in the early stages.

You don’t have to force yourself to eat a full 2 pounds of meat every single day, either. But it will take time to learn what is what, so that you can even learn to recognize whether you are just ‘off’ your food because you’re going through some temporary food apathy stage, due to making the change to ZC eating and/or the withdrawals from the old carb-stimulation of your appetite…or, if despite your mind thinking you’re not hungry, your cells are still in fact hungry, regardless of what your mind feels about it.

The best way to get through all of that, is to eat a little, or eat some more, whenever you even start thinking about food or questioning whether you are hungry, and to not worry too much about the ‘why’ for the first few months, at least. And let the process happen naturally, where your body will sort all that out for you, in time, as it gradually just unfolds effortlessly into a better, more intuitive understanding of all the signals and what they may mean.

Then you’ll know if you have any issues you might try to work on, like if you eat often because you’ve used food to soothe your feelings for your whole life, for example, or if instead it is because you are actually hungry or getting signals from the cells that you do indeed need fuel.
Trying to rush this process too, just as with other areas of ZC, ie. trying to force it all mentally, instead of allowing the learning and natural transitioning of the body to reveal this based on its own needs, along with revealing all other ‘habits’ and prior fixations to you, over time…causes issues, more often than not, for new people.

Usually ones involving trying to ‘fit’ their food intake into various ideas about what they ‘should be eating’ or how their hunger ‘should’ behave, which ends up leading them to eventually caving to all the pressure these place upon them, such that they end up ‘blowing it’ altogether, when they can’t take the strain of the self-imposed rigidity anymore.

Let all of that go. If you’re really not hungry, don’t eat. But be aware that, until you’ve been Zero Carb for at least a good few months, your signals will and can be easily misinterpreted by the mind. So an attitude of freedom to eat whenever you want, is an important step in breaking those old confusions which the mind still clings to and which it so often turns into even more confusion, when our focus is trying to mentally ‘figure out’ and place boundaries upon how much and when we eat on ZC.

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Head hunger will tell you that _____ carbs are what you are hungry for, right? We think we’re fighting cravings when we stand firm and don’t give in to those kind of signals. Or we feel like a failure if we do give in to those signals and eat _____ carbs.

We MUST begin to realize that this is actually “body” hunger. On a mixed diet, including carbs, and especially on a low calorie or restricted diet, our bodies are starving at the cellular level. They’re not getting the optimum fuel. So our cells cry out for fuel! It often takes the form of carbs, right? A candy bar, bread, juice/soda, pasta, etc. (Usually I avoid naming carbs, so overlook this, for the purpose of this discussion.)

When our mind/head suggests a certain carb, we call that a craving. Often it is so strong that we cannot focus on anything else until we locate that particular food and satisfy that craving.

Think much broader than that, now. Your body is starving at the cellular level. Especially if you are ill, overweight or obese, have thyroid or hormone imbalances, or have been on restricted diets in the past.

You must feed your body optimum fuel. When you get cravings, eat more meat. It is the absolute best thing you can do. And 1-2 pounds of steak or burgers will quiet ANY cravings in your head, I promise.

Always fix a meal and take a few bites before you conclude that you’re not hungry. You don’t have that empty, low blood sugar crash that most of us associate with hunger. It’s because your insulin levels are stabilizing. It’s a good thing!

However, a big part of adapting to a meat only diet is learning these other hunger cues. Or learning that you simply NEED a certain amount of fuel every day.

“Eat to hunger” really does take on a new meaning.

And as BJ (a long time zero carber) has eloquently said many times, this process can take years!

We don’t want anyone stuffing themselves or eating simply because you’re trying to reach a set amount of food per day.

BUT, the biggest danger to new people in the early months of adopting a Zero Carb Carnivore diet is not eating enough. The sharp hunger cues are not there, so people think they don’t need to eat, and within days or sometimes a few weeks – they get fatigued, they lose energy and strength, they can’t fight cravings, and they conclude that Zero Carb just doesn’t work for them.

These are the times to err on the side of too much meat. Fix three meals a day and take a few bites. If the smell and taste of meat doesn’t trigger an appetite, fine. Put the food away and try again a little later.

Trust me, your body is hungry and needs a lot of good fuel. It will let you know! Fatigue, grouchy mood, headache – these are some of your new hunger signals!

If you ask yourself, “What would the long-time ZCers say?” Guess what? Almost invariably, our answer will be, “Eat more meat!”

So try that first. If the problem persists, then come and ask, ha ha.

But for most of the issues in the first 6-12 months, yeah, we’re probably going to keep repeating, “Have you tried eating more meat?”

See the pattern?

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There are all kinds of tricky situations – we completely understand! Family gatherings, social, business lunches, etc. There are cultural differences to consider, in some cases, also.

For big parties, the office holiday party, church pot luck dinners, and similar – these are often the easiest to deal with. As has been said before, most people don’t even notice! In the early days, do yourself a favor and eat BEFORE a meal. It will be so much easier on you if the choices are limited.

Bring one dish you can eat. Cheese platters, (with pepperoni, sausage, and crackers, if necessary), deviled eggs, shrimp, meatballs, crust-less quiche, sliced deli meat platters, a roast beef, there are really a lot of party foods you can bring, if appropriate.

If you’re dining out, there are also options. Too many to go into – but stick to basics – eat before you go, ask for meat dishes, smile and say no thank you, etc.

Now for family gatherings – these can be the most difficult to maneuver. The same principles apply, though. Eat beforehand. You will be so glad you did! Bring plenty of food to share. Focus on visiting and talking with others. Offer to wash dishes, watch the children, go for a walk after dinner, etc. If there are people who will really push their food, hopefully you can have a conversation with them. (Parents, grandparents, aunts, etc.) Just tell them you have been trying an elimination diet, and right now, you feel best if you avoid all grains and sugar and fiber, etc. (All perfectly true.) You don’t have to admit to all meat, exactly, if you’re not ready for that. But just ask for plain meat, no breading or gravy. If they care about you, they will be so glad to help.

If it is more complicated than that, just stick to basics. Smile, say that everything looks delicious, but you just aren’t hungry right now. Then change the subject and talk about how glad you are to see them, ask about their kids, etc. Drink water, pile on the meat, and enjoy.

Very occasionally, you end up at a house where you don’t know the hosts very well and there’s no opportunity to talk ahead of time or bring your own food. And they serve salad and pasta, ha ha. It has happened to me! Same basic principle. Drink water. Move the food around. Explain that you are recovering from a recent illness, if you must come up with something.

Most people today understand giving up all grain. But they still offer a lot of fruits and vegetables. This can be tricky!

If you have eaten already, it’s very easy to sit there and talk and drink a glass of water. It might make some people VERY uncomfortable, but it is okay. It’s only a couple of hours, when you think about it.

We bring meat to my father’s house – his wife is a vegetarian. My dad eats a huge portion of what we bring, and it drives his wife crazy. She keeps hinting that he should have salad, but he just smiles and enjoys himself, lol.

Some recent musings. Hoping to clarify our position and clear up misunderstandings.

1. Eating a meat-only diet (referred to as Zero Carb or ZC) will not cure everything. We have never stated that. In fact, if we did state that, we would open ourselves up to lawsuits. Keep this in mind.

2. Eliminating carbohydrates and eating only meat IS the single best thing you can do for your overall health. We absolutely stand behind this statement.

3. Expecting miracles in a few days or weeks is unrealistic. Many people do experience immediate relief from troublesome symptoms, such as gastric distress, insomnia, fatigue, etc., but many others do not.

Most obese and overweight people will lose weight. If you have multiple health issues, it’s possible that you won’t see rapid weight loss at first.

We ask you to try this for 30 days. Not because you will be thin and healthy and disease-free in 30 days, but because the vast majority of people can’t set aside their familiar foods and habits for that long. If you make it 30 days, we are certain you can make it 90 days. If you make it 90 days, you absolutely can make 6 months.

If you make it 6 months, zero carb will become your default. You may fall away for a time and succumb to the siren song of something new or better, but you will return to a meat-only diet. (And….see point #2.)

You WILL see improvements in 30 days and in 6 months. Blood sugar levels will stabilize. Inflammation and related pain will be reduced. Skin issues will begin to clear up.

4. Some things may take a year. Or two years. Don’t give up on yourself.

5. You will still experience the normal trials of life in the modern world. You might fall and break your arm. You might be in a car accident. You might develop cancer or arthritis or heart disease. You might get the flu or a staph infection. You might need surgery.

You might suffer from depression. You will have emotional ups and downs and you WILL experience stress.

6. Refer to point #1. If you were hoping that ZC would protect y

ou from ALL of these ailments, you are mistaken. Life still happens.

You might not ever lose all your excess weight. You might still need medications or treatments for illnesses or accidents or disease.

The metabolic damage from decades of a poor diet may not be fully reversed.

7. See point #2 again! We still choose to be zero carb even if there are symptoms that don’t fully disappear. Going back to carbs will NEVER bring the monumental healing that eating only meat will grant.

Eat lots of meat, otherwise follow physician’s recommendations, (don’t suddenly take yourself off of prescription medications, please!) get lots of sunshine and fresh air (even though you won’t feel like it), go to a therapist, find a support group, take up a new hobby or sport, read books, connect with old friends, learn a foreign language, and oh yeah, eat lots of meat. Learn about your condition – read everything you can find.

8. In other words, use common sense. And eat a lot of meat.

ZC might not fix your entire life, but it will greatly improve it in multiple areas. I would rather be ZC through all the challenges than seek temporary comfort in carbs.

9. Be warned: you may find yourself healed from issues that you thought were permanent. Or how about free from cravings and mental “noise?” Is that possible? Yes! Free from obsessions and compulsions that you thought were mental or emotional? Also quite possible.

Calmer. More stable. Definitely more fertile and, um, a revived interest in intimacy.

You may find yourself in a new relationship, a new career, a new location – or all of these! You might even find yourself the admin of a Facebook group!

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http://www.zerocarbhealth.com/index.php/2017/07/11/the-nequalsmany-zero-carb-carnivore-experiment/#commentsTue, 11 Jul 2017 15:18:59 +0000http://www.zerocarbhealth.com/?p=1010Rumors are going around the Zero Carb Community about a Doctor, Shawn Baker, wanting to conduct an experiment ( nequalsmany) to collect data about people who eat a zero carb carnivorous diet, specifically, meat and water. This could be exciting for those of us who live this lifestyle. We would love for our diet to get more exposure about how healthy it is, because we are tired of being in the closet about it, being shamed, condemned and bullied by doctors, family and loved ones.

I have to say I am not too excited by the Data he wants to collect. We have 10 years of observation and testimonials from thousands of people to easily produce the Data being sought.

We already know the results of this experiment.
Any person who has been active in the Zero Carb community’s ( Zeroing in On Health or Zero Carb Health) for at least a year can easily answer the questions sought by the nequalsmany experiment.

What do we eat? – For the first 2-3 years most people will eat all meats, less and non optimal ZC foods. After that, most people tend to settle into a mostly beef diet, with ribeye steaks and ground beef (80/20) being the most popular.

The cost? – Well, that depends on how much you eat. For the first 2 years, people tend to eat a lot. Our bodies are starving and it shows in the amount some of us need to eat, sometimes up to 5lbs a day! After 1-2 years our appetite calms down and we all settle into about 2-3lbs depending on activity.

Since meat is sold by the pound, the cost is very easy to figure out. If I eat 2 lbs a day and ground beef is 2.00/lb then I can eat for $4 a day. I typically eat 1lb GB in the AM and 1lb Ribeye at night. $2 + $8 = $10/day.

Poop? – Our most popular topic. We poop less, because meat is nutrient dense and there is less waste when eating an all meat diet. Our bodies are no longer purging indigestible plant matter. Depending on activity level, some of us only go 1 x every 3 days or so. Some people go every day. Constipation is never a problem.

Rule of thumb – If you have loose stools cut back on fat, hard stools, eat more fat.

Sleep – Most people sleep much better on a ZC diet. If a person has a high stress life, they may need to learn how relax so that they can sleep better. ZC alone does not fix everything.

Sexuality and fertility? – Much better! I can’t tell you how many infertile women suddenly conceived after adopting a carnivorous diet.

Weight? – Weight generally goes down, unless people are underweight or coming from fasting and/or restricting diets. The restricters can gain for months before the body decides to turn around and start shedding fat. Kelly, a long time ZC vet, posted about this here.

People in the 40-60+ range tend to have more problems losing weight, most likely due to age related hormone changes.This is something I am currently working on. It’s looking like exercise may be the answer for these folks.

As somebody who has eaten a 99% meat and water diet (1% dairy, eggs, or other non optimal ZC foods) for the past 9+ years, I don’t see how my participating in a 90 day experiment of doing the same thing for 90 more days would be beneficial. Although, I support the experiment for the exposure it may bring to the Zero Carb way of life.

Some experiments I think the zero carb communities would be excited about;

Blood nutrient profiles showing we are not deficient in anything, especially vitamin C.